ST. PETERSBURG - The Marine Science Happy Hour this month will be located at Z Grille 104 2nd St. S from 5-7pm. There are parking garages directly North, West and South of the Z Grille, and metered street parking. There will be a full bar and also have HH specials so ask your server about them. Nametags will be provided and bring a business card to drop into our free door prize raffle which will still be drawn at 5:45-6:00 pm. You can sign up for the USFCMS Happy Hour Networking online.

ST. PETERSBURG, FL - Join us Tuesday, August 18th, 4:30-6:30pm is our next Tampa Bay Area Marine Science Networking Happy Hour at another new location for us - St Pete Brewing Company. This will be a special networking event for us as additional festivities will be provided by the Marine Technology Society (see below). The event is self pay, park at the street meters and name tags will be provided. If you are a hiring manager or a job seeker this is the perfect event to make a connection. Please share this with any ocean science professionals you may know and encourage them to attend.

The Happy Hour will also be a quick chance to reconnect with the Florida Section of the Marine Technology Society (MTS). Already a member? Great! Want to be one? Now's the time to join. Interested in helping promote MTS and the Florida Section? MTS is excited to have you.

MTS Florida Section will provide food and a quick run down on the status of the Section and efforts to give it a jumpstart. In addition MTS will have a great raffle prize of goodies from Odyssey Marine Exploration. Tickets are $2 each or three for $5. All monies raised will go to the Florida MTS Section.

ST. PETERSBURG, FL - Our next Tampa Bay Area Marine Science Networking Happy Hour will be today August 30, 2016, 4:30-6:30pm at Hollander Hotel Tap Room, 421 4th Ave N, St Petersburg, FL 33701 for their Florida Craft Beer Nite. The event is selfpay, they have some onsite parking or street parking is nearby and name tags will be provided.

ST. PETERSBURG, FL - Happy Anniversary! Our next Tampa Bay Area Marine Science Networking Happy Hour will be Wednesday November 9, 2016, 4:30-6:30pm at Canopy Rooftop Bar atop the Birchwood Hotel, 340 Beach Dr NE, St Petersburg, FL 33701 for our Fourth Anniversary. The event is self pay, they have great happy hour specials for as low as $3 and you cannot beat the view. Park in a nearby garage or at street meters and name tags will be provided.

This is our final event in 2016 so if you have not made it to one all year then now is the time, and January will bring us some new venues again. Find a potential employer or collaborator, a new grad student, a new major professor - or just meet other science professionals outside your office, because networking is not just for when you are not working. Please share this notice and join us - and bring your ocean science professional friends and colleagues.

ST. PETERSBURG, FL - Our next Tampa Bay Area Marine Science Networking Happy Hour will be today, March 23, 2017, 4:30-6:30pm at SeaSalt (Himalayan Lounge area indoors to the left as you enter the main doors and near the patio entrance), 183 2nd Avenue N, St Petersburg, FL 33701 in the Sundial. The event is self pay and name tags will be provided. They have complimentary valet (tip appreciated), or you can park at street meters or garages.

This event is a great opportunity to find a potential employer or collaborator, a new grad student, a new major professor - or just meet other science professionals outside your office. Please share this notice and join us - and bring your ocean science professional friends and colleagues! St. Petersburg POD of 500 Women Scientists - mini huddle at 6pm within this same event!

April Save-the-Date: This will be held in conjunction with the USF College of Marine Science's 50th Anniversary Celebration, Wednesday, April 5, 2017, Tavern at Bayboro 120 6th Ave S St Petersburg FL 33701

ST. PETERSBURG, FL - Today, Wednesday, April 5th 5-7pm is our next Tampa Bay Area Marine Science Networking Happy Hour. Today we will be at The Tavern at Bayboro 120 6th Ave S St Petersburg FL 33701. This event is in conjunction with the USF College of Marine Science 50th Anniversary celebration so there will be increased opportunity to network with ocean science alumni from around the world. The event is self pay and name tags will be provided.

Parking will likely be a challenge here - there are paid meters on the street along both sides of 1st Ave S and along 8th Ave SE, there is also some parking in the specially designated spaces in the Tavern's lot or you can also find visitor parking in the USF garage on the north side of 6th Ave S and 3rd St across from the USF Student Center - this is 1.5 blocks due west of the Tavern. Find a potential employer or collaborator, a new grad student, a new major professor or just meet other science professionals outside your office, because networking is not just for when you are not working. Please share this notice and join us - and bring your ocean science professional friends and colleagues.

ST. PETERSBURG, FL - We are celebrating World Ocean Day for the next Tampa Bay Area Marine Science Networking Happy Hour. It will be this Thursday, June 8, 2017 at Ale & the Witch in the Courtyard Shoppes, 111 2nd Ave NE, Saint Petersburg, FL 33701 from 4:30-6:30pm. They have a new happy hour called the witching hour until 6pm (M-Th) when all pints and tulip glasses are just $4. You can park in the garage to the north, other nearby garages, or in street meters. The event is self pay and name tags will be provided. Share this invitation with your ocean professional friends.

After, you can move the World Ocean Day party over to the FREE family fun Blue Ocean Film Festival movie in Straub Park, with shorts and a feature screen of the best in show film Bag It going on until 10pm. Or you can stick around A&W’s courtyard for some live music by Kyle and Shannon at 8pm.